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The internet is a haven and boon for self taught people. For example, most successful startup owners did not have a busines degree. This is the age of DIY where people use the internet to research and do things themselves, from retrofitting a car with hybrid engines to overhauling the plumbing of the house. This is the age where the monopoly of organized education is facing tough challenge from the likes of Wikipedia, P2P education networks, Online Video, Mobile-based education. So, here goes,

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
- Quentin Tarantino, self-taught cult filmmaker

You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
- Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon), Good Will Hunting

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
- Beatrix Potter

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects!
- Robert Anson Heinlein

Don't be afraid to ask for advice.

Read more books, newspapers and magazines.
Read more on the Internet

LEARN BY DOING.
Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
Learn by surrounding yourself with talented players.

A person who graduated yesterday and stops studying today is uneducated tomorrow.
- Anon.

AUTODIDACTICISM
An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person, as opposed to learning in a school setting or from a tutor.

A person may become an autodidact at nearly any point in his or her life. While some may have been educated in a conventional manner in a particular field, they may choose to educate themselves in other, often unrelated areas.

Self-teaching and self-directed learning are not necessarily lonely processes. Some autodidacts spend a great deal of time in libraries or on educative websites. Many, according to their plan for learning, avail themselves of instruction from family members, friends, or other associates (although strictly speaking this might not be considered autodidactic). Indeed, the term "self-taught" is something of a journalistic trope these days, and is often used to signify "non-traditionally educated", which is entirely different.

Socrates, Descartes, Avicenna, Benjamin Franklin, George Bernard Shaw, Feodor Chaliapin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Alva Edison, Malcolm X, and many others were autodidacts.

Many successful filmmakers did not attend college or dropped out. These include Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, Woody Allen and Steven Soderbergh.
- Wikipedia

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
- John Adams

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

10 WAYS TO BECOME A SELF TAUGHT MASTER
- Wikipedia
- Wikiversity
- Free Online Courses
- Chapter a day
- Word a day.
- Take quizzes.
- Art a day.
- Podcasts.
- Free ebooks
- Learn languages for free online

Use the Internet to learn daily.
Source: Dumblittleman.com

RULES FOR RESEARCH
1. Listen to the Gentiles - "Pay attention to what intelligent people are saying, even if they do not have your customs or speak your analytical language."
2. Question the question
3. Dare to be silly
4. Simplify, simplify
- Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
"Habits of thought, reading, writing, and speaking which go beneath surface meaning, first impressions, dominant myths, official pronouncements, traditional clichés, received wisdom, and mere opinions, to understand the deep meaning, root causes, social context, ideology, and personal consequences of any action, event, object, process, organization, experience, text, subject matter, policy, mass media, or discourse."
- WIkipedia, Critical Pedagogy by Joe L. Kincheloe

"I forget what I was taught, I only remember what I've learnt."
- Patrick White, Nobel Prizewinning Australian novelist

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